"Last night about 8 p.m., officers responded to a call of a burglary in the 7500 block of Mandy Drive," Sacramento Police Sgt. Bryce Heinlein said. "When officers arrived they located a deceased male Asian adult in his 20s inside the residence."

The man was identified as 36-year-old Mao Ren by the Sacramento County Coroner's Office on Wednesday.

A woman who asked to be identified only as Pam, told KCRA 3 she was very suspicious of activities inside the home of her next door neighbor.

"Kept smelling a whole bunch of weed as soon as I come out of the house," Pam said.

"But you never did see no activity over there," she added. "There was just something really wrong all the time."

Sacramento County property records indicate the pot house was purchased last year by Rong Lin of Brooklyn, New York.

"It doesn't appear that anybody was living in the residence," Heinlein told KCRA 3.

Instead, police suspect the house was simply a front for a commercial marijuana-growing operation.

"A lot of times these operations are connected with multiple residences," Heinlein said.

"Now I just have to be cautious with my children," Moore said. "And it scares me because I thought I was moving somewhere where, you know, this is a good neighborhood. And now, it's not really."